GoCatGoCat Da Bird Pull 2 Piece Pull Apart Rod & Bird, Handmade in The USA (1 Bird)

Cats rate 5 stars. I have to hide is so the cats don’t destroy the feather when we aren’t playing. Include the feather refills as part of the total cost of ownership. We go through 1-2 a month.

~MAIN REVIEW OF THE TOY~This is hands down my cat’s favorite toy, which is a feat to accomplish since my cat is so picky! If you have a cat like mine, then you have a closet full of cat toys that you only managed to get your cat to touch once, if at all. I use to constantly get toys for her hoping that the next one would please her, but she was never impressed. Something about this one though, she doesn't get enough of it! I have to quit because I have things to do long before she wants to give up. And this isn't like one of those toys where you get excited because you think that you've finally found one that she likes, and then she doesn't want anything to do with it days or weeks later. I've had to replace one of these several times over the YEARS because she’s worn them out. She likes it best when I'm making the bird thing fly back and forth and I really like that she's getting much needed exercise trying to catch it.~A LITTLE HINT ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN DO IF YOU'RE BORED BUT YOUR CAT ISN'T~Sometimes I'm just too busy to play with her so I bought a second one and taped the end of it to the stairs railing so that it hangs a little bit higher than her head when she is sitting. For about a month or two she went at it on her own even though it wasn't moving. She would walk up to it, reach up, and slap it which would cause it to fly all over the place and she would go at it. After that I had to get her interested in it again, by jingling it in front of her or hitting it so that she would go after it, then I could leave her to play with it on her own and I could go back to doing what I wanted. That got a little old as well (Let me be clear that the item itself didn't get old for her, just me not moving it anymore, she is still super excited when I go get the other one and swing it around for her). Anyway, I came up with another trick to keep her interested in the stationary one. I had a little fan on not far from it and I turned it slightly so that it would blow on the stationary one and make it move a little. Every now and then I still hear something and look over to see my cat attacking it like crazy.~WARNING ABOUT HIDING IT WHEN YOU'RE NOT USING IT~(Because Your Cat My Still Try To Get At It And Destroy Things In The Process)Which brings me to another good point, be careful where you keep it after you are done playing with your cat. I use to take it apart, twist up the string, and put it in a draw in my closest. One day after playing, I just set it down on the counter in the living room where we had been playing. A little while later, I heard a crash and then my cat comes in the room, the bird in her mouth and the stick trailing behind her. I go in the living room and things are knocked off the counter and a stool is knocked over (my cat has never not once gotten on one of those stools or the counter). She just REALLY wanted to keep playing, lol!~DOGS LOVE IT TOO (EVEN SICK ONES WILL TRY TO GET IT SO BE CAREFUL!)~Another note is that dogs really like it as well. When I bought the first one of these I was still living with my mom and she had three dogs. I couldn't play with my cat in the living room because the dogs were trampling all over my cat trying to catch the bird, even my 15 year old dog with severe arthritis that was going through heart failure at the time. She hadn't moved in the last year or so except to the food dish and to her sleeping spot and I couldn't believe the way that she was going at this toy! I made her stop because I was worried that her heart was going to give out right then, but I wish that I had found this toy earlier so that I could have used it to keep her healthier.It’s an amazing toy that I don't know how I ever lived without. I have and will continue to buy it again and again!If my pictures or review helped in anyway, please click the Helpful or Yes button below! If not, feel free to leave a comment letting me know what I could include or ask any question that you may have! Thanks!

Da Bird Cat Toy - Easy Store - 2 Part PoleMy cat has been uninterested in other toys I've bought him over the years. Then, on [...] I read about play. It said their are 3 prey types - bugs, small furry things like rodents, and birds, and your cat may like all or only one of these. If the cat responds to small balls or things it can chase - possibly fur or leather - that you toss across the floor for it to run after - it likes mice prey. If your kitty loves lasers, it likes bugs for prey. If it likes things up high that move through the air, it prefers birds as prey. The disadvantage of laser play was pointed out in an article by Jackson Galaxy at that site. For a complete play experience, the cat needs to stalk, catch and kill its prey. That is what play is to them. To provide that, every time they bat at the low-flying "bird", and hit it, you must BE THE BIRD and make it fly a bit lower or with more effort (your cat has struck it and that would affect its flying.) If the cat catches it in its mouth, the article pointed out that birds will play dead. If you allow the cat to walk away and sit a few feet away, it will watch the bird to see whether it moves and is, indeed, "alive." You get to twitch the string to do this. Keep the string taut at all times, so your cat focuses on the bird and not the string. When the cat sees the injured bird is alive, it will likely come back for the kill. An injured bird might also fly behind or under something in order to hide. Let your cat sniff it out.This toy makes a whirring, feather rustling sound and has the same flight movements as a bird flying quickly by. The air currents make the feathers whirl and it strikes an instinctive chord in the cat's hunter predator makeup. I thought it might only appeal to younger or healthy cats. My cat is going on 14 in a couple of months. He has biopsied IBD and chronic nasal discharge and sneezes; he has chronic renal failure, and occasional attacks of pancreatitis. The specialist who did the endoscopy and rhinoscopy and diagnosed his IBD when Siena was one, said he would probably not make it to age 5. I didn't want him to get depressed, and I thought moving around would be good for him, so I got Da Bird in a grasping-at-straws moment. He loves it! From the first moment, he became like a kitten again! His eyes dilated, ears perked forward, he went on alert, he cried his hunter cry I haven't heard in years. He's an indoor kitty (an Abyssinian) and has never caught or killed anything in the wild, so this was instinctive play for him. It was wonderful.So, even if you have an older kitty who is ill or on meds and doesn't stir much, this is a wonderful way to connect and bond with him or her and to get him/her up and moving. The last key to play is when the cat captures the bird and gives it a shake to break its neck, or clutches the bird while on its back with all four paws, that's a kill. To finalize the play action, at that point give the cat a bit of high protein treat. He will then have stalked, hunted, caught and killed his prey, resulting in eating. The complete natural cycle. Great exercise and i have so much fun seeing him so alive and happy!